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The ratings review finished with both upgrades and downgrades linked to senior bonds now being subordinated to regular deposits
Public pension schemes have sold shares in coal, oil and gas companies but are still funding expansion of the gas industry through infrastructure funds
Key points of contention include the investor sanctions regime and the definition of 'resilience'
European and other regulators are working on reforms to make covered bond funding more efficient
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Australia’s minister of trade and investment, Andrew Robb, and treasurer Joe Hockey were in Beijing on Tuesday for the inaugural Australia-China Strategic Economic Dialogue meeting. The aim was to discuss a free trade agreement and ways to boost Australia’s standing as a trading and investment partner. -
In this week's round-up, Taiwan and London released data on RMB business, London and Frankfurt announced official RMB clearing banks, Ghana and Nepal announced plans to develop more renminbi business, and a trade zone in Hengqin announced plans for RMB investment products.
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DBS and Standard Chartered on Friday announced their first renminbi loans to clients in the Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP), a Singapore-China co-operation zone in Jiangsu province, following similar transactions completed earlier this week by ICBC.
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China's gradual push to internationalise its currency took a step in a new direction this week with the launch by the Shanghai Gold Exchange of an international gold trading platform that will allow the trading of offshore renminbi-denominated contracts by traders with accounts in the Shanghai Free Trade Zone (FTZ).
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The Singaporean unit of ICBC has transferred Rmb200m ($32m) to its Shanghai Free Trade Zone (FTZ) branch, in what the bank said was the first example of an RMB treasury operation between the city-state and the FTZ.
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Germany is unlikely to accept the European Commission’s latest draft of the Liquidity Coverage Ratio, which introduces a new limit on which covered bond can go into the buffer. Under the Commission’s latest proposal, covered bonds that attract the best treatment will need a minimum single-A issuer rating.
